Type-holder



(No Model.)

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TYPE HOLDER. y No. 545,635. Patented Sept. 3, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OASSIUS F. MOORE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.-

TYPE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,635, dated September 3, 1895. Application filed January 30, 1895. serial No. 536,666- (No model) .To rtZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CASSIUS F. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Type-Holders and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in hand-holders for rubber type, and has for its object to provide a device of this character wherein smaller letters may be used and lines ing in the direction indicated by the arrow.

A is a rectangular block or stock which will ordinarily be of wood, and B a handle inserted in the back thereof. The face side of the block is provided with a number of narrow grooves Ct, having parallel walls. these grooves is inserted a metal holding strip 0, which projects beyond the face of the block and provides channels or spaces 1), therebetween for the reception of the type.

The grooves in the block-holder are made at one operation or cut and receive a single thin strip of metal. The grooves having straight sides or walls can be cut closer togetl1erthat is, a greater number can be made in a block or back of limited dimensions, thereby providing for a corresponding number of the type-holding strips, which may be set much closer together than if the grooves are onlarged at the bottom and the holding-strips bent over double.- By this arrangement of setting the holding-strips closely together a very small letter may be used and the lines of type set closer together, three lines occupying the same space, relatively, as required for two lines under the ordinary arrangement.

In each of The projecting edges of the holding-strips are provided with caps d, which serve as a reinforce and stiftens the top edges. A detached detail of one of these caps is shown in Fig. 2.

These caps will ordinarily be made of any suitable sheet metal, or of some flexible material, as practical working may require.

The holding-strips are retained in place by pins g, inserted transversely through the block from side to side, as shown in Fig. 3.

By using a partition of a single thickness it is possible to make a smaller letter and get the lines closer together so that a greater amount of matter may be printed in a certain space,'or, in other words, where the ordinary type-holder hassay, for instance, a four line space-the present improvement can have sixlines in a holder of the same dimensions,

the great advantage of which is apparent to cap, mounted on the edges of said strips, and I locking-pins, inserted through said block and strips, substantially as described.

2. In a type-holder, the combination of a block, a series of holding-strips, of a single thickness and seated in said block and having the outer edges projecting therefrom, and a j reinforce-cap, adapted. to fit over and stiifen the edges of said strips, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I attix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Y CASSIUS F. MOORE.

Witnesses:

L. M. FREEMAN, L. B. COUPLAND. 

